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The Entomological Society of Manitoba

Newsletter

Volume 40 Number 3 ISSN 0836-5830 Spring 2014

About the ESM

Newsletter The Entomological Society of

Manitoba Newsletter is

published three times per year.

It is a forum whereby

information can be

disseminated to Society

members. As such, all

members are encouraged to

contribute often. The

Newsletter is interested in

opinions, short articles, news

of research projects, meeting

announcements, workshops,

courses and other events,

requests for materials or

information, news of

personnel or visiting scientists,

literature reviews or

announcements and anything

that may be of interest to ESM

members.

Marjorie Smith, Editor1

Jordan Bannerman, Editor2

Dept. of Entomology,

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba

R3T 2N2

1Ph. 204-233-5856

marj_smith@live.com

2Ph. 204-480-1021

jordan.bannerman@umanit

oba.ca

Editors’ Comments

In this issue of the ESM

Newsletter, our President,

Robbin Lindsay, updates us

on recent decisions of the

Executive, including a move

to using e-mail to save on

mailing costs of ESM

publications. Robbin also

outlines the theme and likely

dates (mid- or late October)

of the Annual Scientific

Meeting. Stay tuned for

further details as well as information on participating in the

oral and poster presentations.

Many of you remember Joanne Buth, a long-time member

of the ESM, who was appointed as a member of the Senate

in 2012 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Joanne recently

stepped down as Senator and accepted the position of CEO

of the Canadian International Grains Institute. Our best

wishes to Joanne on her new appointment.

On a sad note, former ESM member Lloyd Dosdall died on

12 June in Edmonton after a battle with cancer. Lloyd

worked briefly as a research associate in the Department of

Entomology at the University of Manitoba in the late 1980s

working on biting flies. Most recently, Lloyd was a Professor

in the University of Alberta’s Department of Agriculture,

Food and Nutritional Science. More details will be provided

in the next issue of the ESM Newsletter.

Marjorie Smith & Jordan Bannerman

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From the President

Summer is finally here and this is the best and busiest time of year for us entomologists. Field

work can now dominate our agendas and the brutally long winter of 2014 is but a distant

memory. Some of us may have been worried that the polar vortex that engulfed Manitoba for the

better part of 5 months might have inflicted unusually high rates of mortality on our favourite

arthropods. Alas, the biting types that I work on seem to have come through winter more or less

unscathed (unlike the water lines in some Winnipeg residents including many of my neighbours

in Fort Rouge). American

dog ticks and blacklegged

ticks are active and at

numbers typical of early

summer in Manitoba, and

for several weeks we have

been pounded by a

multitude of spring Aedes

mosquitoes and amused by

the slow and lumbering

Culiseta inornata

mosquitoes that have been

attacking us (these large

females tend to “perch”

rather than land, they are

so large and clumsy).

Other biting flies are now

also joining these familiar

Diptera and we should all

try and enjoy them, as

when they are gone, so is our short summer.

On a more official front, the ESM executive met in late May and discussed a number of

important topics. In recent years, the society has spent an inordinate amount of money to mail

out (via Canada Post), this Newsletter, the ESM proceedings and ballots for the ESM elections.

In the interest of cost savings, it was decided that the Newsletter and Proceedings will now only

be mailed out to individuals who do not have an email address registered with the society. It was

also suggested that the ESM elections could be conducted “electronically”. This objective may

take longer to accomplish as we will need to modify the Society’s by-laws to facilitate “on-line

voting” and we will need to find a software package that will allow us to conduct a fair and

transparent electronic electoral process. The move to electronic voting is a logical one and

somewhat overdue given the money that is spent (wasted?) to mail out ballots. Please stay tuned

for more on this topic and if have not registered an email with the Society, please do.

The dollars saved from moving away from traditional mail outs of ESM documents (as well our

earlier decision to no longer hire an auditor to annually review the Society’s financial records)

means that more monies can be made available to our greatest asset, our students. The Executive

has decided in light of these savings to increase the graduate award to $1500 from $1000, as well

Robbin releasing a deer mouse collected as part of a tick study in Nova Scotia.

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as increasing the monetary price for the best oral presentation at the ESM annual meeting to

$150 from $100. Finally we also decided to create a $100 prize for the best poster at the annual

meeting. I am sure the students can put these funds to better use than Canada Post!

Finally the Executive also discussed the upcoming 2014 ESM meeting. I volunteered to chair the

Scientific Organising Committee for 2014, and the Executive agreed that given the retirement of

Terry Galloway from the department, a meeting themed on Medical and Veterinary Entomology

would be fitting. Although the Scientific organising committee has yet to meet to hammer out the

meeting details, it is likely the meeting will be held jointly at the Freshwater Institute and the

Department of Entomology on either the 17th

and 18th

or the 24th

and 25th

of October, so please

hold those dates. It is anticipated that we will be able to recruit some excellent speakers from the

Med-Vet community in Canada and the USA. I am excited about the challenge that organising

the annual ESM represents and look forward to providing more updates as the meeting details

are finalized. I look forward to seeing all of you in October and until then, enjoy the insects and

pass the repellent…..

L. Robbin Lindsay

President, ESM

From the Regional Director

Greetings all!

As the Regional Director for the Entomological Society of Canada (ESC), I would like to extend

the official invitation to participate to the upcoming joint meeting of the Entomological Societies

of Canada and Saskatchewan. The meeting will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Saskatoon, from

Sunday, September 28 to Wednesday noon, October 1, 2014. This year’s theme will be

Entomology in a Changing World and will include a keynote presentation by Professor Barry

Pittendright of the University of Illinois on Scientific Animations without Borders: the making

available of scientific knowledge to low-literate learners.

Other program highlights and meeting details can be found on the Joint Annual Meeting website,

www.entsocsask.ca/esc/esc-ess.html.

The deadline for paper and poster submission, as well as early registration is August 1!

Kateryn Rochon

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NEW MEMBER PROFILES

Mahsa Hooshmandi

University of Winnipeg, Bioscience, Technology and Public Policy Master’s student

I am a passionate Entomology and Environmental

Science student looking forward to an active and

rewarding academic career in the Sciences. After

finishing my B.Sc. in plant pathology and M.Sc. in

Entomology in 2012 at Shiraz University in Iran I

decided to widen my academic and research training and

education by coming to Canada. I’ve always been eager

to study in an international language such as English and

also wanted to experience living in a foreign country

much different from my native country, Iran. In fact,

I’ve been very lucky to get a University of Winnipeg

Graduate Scholarship in fall 2013, and will start my first

summer of research under the supervision of Dr. Richard

Westwood, University of Winnipeg, Department of

Biology. My research focus is on Poweshiek skipperling

(Oarisma poweshiek Parker 1870) a small butterfly

listed as an endangered species in Canada in 2003. It is

found in “native tall-grass prairie”, a habitat that has almost disappeared from North America.

Research objectives include understanding of the effects of existing prairie management

activities on skipperling survival and development of more effective conservation methods for

future improvements in planning to enhance and stabilize critical habitat. Proximity relationships

between skipperling microsite use and coarse habitat structure and the influence on adult

skipperling distribution within microsites will be determined based on Geographical Information

System (GIS) analysis. I am looking forward to successfully developing my career which I hope

will lead me to many future opportunities in research and academia.

Ishan Samaranayake

I am from Sri Lanka, the “Pearl of the

Indian Ocean”, which is a world renown

biodiversity hotspot. Since I was young, I

have been thinking about nature and its

creations, and I have been puzzled with the

phenomena that I encountered in day to

day life. Nature is beautiful, complex and

diverse. Biology, the central science

studying nature, appreciates its richness

and diversity. So, I have dreamed of being

a biologist to understand the natural

concepts and to create a better world since

my childhood.

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During my undergraduate studies, I was interested in herpetology and ecology. However, when I

was doing my undergraduate thesis project at the University of Peradeniya during my final year,

I studied plant-animal interactions in Kandyan Home Gardens, and I started to love insects. After

finishing my bachelor’s degree, I worked as graduate teaching assistant at the University of

Peradeniya and had the chance to teach entomology in lab classes for undergraduates. This

opportunity really helped to further my interest and understanding of insects. I came to Winnipeg

with my wife Udari for her Master’s degree at the University of Manitoba and I started my first

job as a research technician at the Aphid Ecology Lab, at the Department of Entomology, in

2013. Currently, I am an MSc student under supervision of Dr. Alejandro C. Costamagna in the

same lab at the University of Manitoba. I am working on soybean aphid suppression and natural

enemy movement in agricultural landscapes in Manitoba.

Furthermore, in my free time I am interested in hiking and camping. I had this passion since my

childhood, when I was a President Boy Scout. I am currently complementing this with learning

wildlife photography.

Udari Wanigasekara

My interest in entomology

dates back to my years in high

school, where I excelled in

biology, chemistry and

physics. When I was in grade

thirteen, I took an invertebrate

diversity course and got

chance to handle bees,

butterflies and beetles. It

made me interested on insects,

especially bees and wasps.

After completing high school,

I was selected to attend the

Faculty of science, University

of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, a

prestigious university in my

country. For my bachelor’s

degree research, I investigated

bees visiting flowers of the vegetable crop, Solanum violaceum, and the efficiency of buzz

pollination by bees on fruit and seed production in Sri Lanka. I graduated from the University of

Peradeniya in 2010 with a first-class Honors degree in Zoology. After the completion of my

undergraduate degree, I worked as a research and development executive in one of the most

reputed agrochemical companies in Sri Lanka for one year. Then, I received a scholarship from

the University of Manitoba to become a graduate student at the department of Entomology.

Currently, I am a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Barb Sharanowski in the Department of

Entomology at the University of Manitoba. For my Ph.D. research, I am assessing the efficacy of

biological control agents of cutworms (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Canola. The overall goal of

this study is to develop sustainable pest management strategies using parasitoids,

entomopathogens and habitat management.

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My long-term goal is to bring the knowledge I learn in Canada to my home country to continue

to research and develop integrated pest management strategies that ensure long-term

sustainability of food production with limited environmental impact.

Dr. Terry Galloway Retires

Dr. Terry Galloway has been an active member of the ESM for four decades and is an

entomologist in the broadest sense, with a wide range of interests in the natural world. Terry

retired from his position as Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of

Manitoba at the end of 2013.

On 13 June a large group of Terry Galloway’s friends and colleagues, both past and present,

came together in the Entomology building courtyard to celebrate his long career and wish him a

long, enjoyable retirement.

Thank you to Miles Zhang of the Department of Entomology for supplying the photos.

Rob Currie, Head of the Department of Entomology, presented Terry with a “high D session pennywhistle made by Ronaldo Reyburn, in a walnut baton box”. Enjoy Terry!

The celebratory cake was made and decorated by Terry’s wife, Carol Galloway. As Terry said, he will miss teaching and interacting daily with students (“Boo-hoo!”) but is enjoying retirement. (“Yippee!”).

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Charles (Chuck) H. Buckner (1928-2014)

We are sorry to report than Charles (Chuck) H. Buckner died in May

this year in Ottawa at the age of 85. There aren’t many ESM members

who would remember Chuck. I met him only once at a Joint Annual

Meeting of the ESM-ESC in 1977. He was a mammalogist who

received his Honour’s Bachelor’s Degree from the University of

Toronto, his M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Manitoba and his

Ph.D. from The University of Western Ontario. Chuck was recruited

into the Canadian Forestry Service and moved to Winnipeg to become

involved with the multidisciplinary study on the larch sawfly which was emerging as a serious

forest pest in boreal Canada. In 1952, he became part of a large research group, the Forest

Entomology Laboratory, interested in developing life tables for larch sawfly, a popular approach

for pest management at the time. Chuck’s expertise in mammals was important in the assessment

of vertebrate predation on sawfly larvae in cocoons during winter on the forest floor. He

contributed to many research publications and reports (http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/authors/read/12415)

in the early years of their study at Red Rock Lake, Manitoba. His interests were quite broad, and

he published the only summaries of fleas specifically known to occur in the province. He became

an active member of the Entomological Society of Manitoba in 1952, contributing to annual

meetings and meeting symposia. He was Editor of the Proceedings of the ESM and the Manitoba

Entomologist from 1967 to 1969, and served as the society Librarian in 1967. He was a Life

Member of the ESM. He and his family moved to Ottawa when the Forestry Lab in Winnipeg was

closed in 1969-1970, where he continued his research in forest entomology, but more focused on

the application and impacts of insecticides for the control of forest defoliators. We extend our

condolences to his family and friends.

Terry D. Galloway

Hot Days in March

By Dr. Robert E. Wrigley

As I finish this article on March 10, 2014, I just returned from skiing in Assiniboine Forest, and

there is one-metre of snow in my yard. The jet stream continues to pull frigid Arctic air south

into Manitoba and the American mid-West, making it hard to believe that the Spring Equinox

will occur on March 20. I cannot help but reminisce about March 16 to 23, 2012, which were

exceptional days in southern Manitoba -- old record-high temperatures were exceeded by well

over 10˚C, climbing to 20-25˚C in the afternoons. In most years, the average low/high at this

time of year is a frosty -7˚C/+1˚C, many centimetres of snow still cover the ground, and the

record low dipped to -26˚C. But in mid-March, 2012, the snow had melted away and flocks of

Canada Geese, raptors and songbirds were already arriving. The jet stream had suddenly swept

north, drawing warm southern winds into the province.

I wondered how significant these unusually warm temperatures would be to insects, spiders and

other critters, so I decided to find out by heading to several of my favorite collecting grounds --

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the Mixed-grass Prairie and Spruce-Oak-Aspen Savanna of the Carberry Sandhills, the Boreal

Forest east of Seddons Corner (near Beausejour), and the Pembina River south of Darlingford.

Arriving in the Carberry Sandhills by

noon on Friday, March 16, I saw that the

sandhills were completely devoid of

snow cover, with the only patches of

white lingering on in the bush and along

shaded trails. Stopping by a couple of the

road-cuts along Highway 5, I picked up

four species of grasshopper nymphs, one

species of bee, three species of spiders,

three species of flies, and I caught a

quick glimpse of a small gray moth and

several small, fast-flying, orange and

black butterflies, which deftly avoided

my net (see foot note). No ants, wasps,

tiger beetles, or other insects, which I

usually find here in spring and summer,

made an appearance. The sand surface was warm to the touch, and moist below, but a metre

below ground, where many species of arthropods were hibernating, I presumed it was still cold.

In past years, I had not found spring tiger beetles (Cicindela formosa, C. lengi, C. tranquebarica,

C. repanda) active in the Sandhills until the third week of April.

I concluded I would see more action in a nearby aquatic site -- a shallow pond nestled at the base

of a sand-extraction pit. I arrived to see that ice still covered two-thirds of the pond. I stepped in

with my aquatic net at the ready, only to find that one of my rubber boots had sprung a leak, and

ice-cold water began to seep between my toes, soon soaking my sock. Oh well, the sun was

shining and it felt like summer, so what did a little soaker matter? Since the pond was of fairly

recent origin, there was little organic matter on the bottom, so visibility was excellent as I

scanned the shallows for insects. I knew from past experience that by July, this warm pond water

would be swarming with aquatic insects.

Dipping for bugs, I suddenly had a flashback to one of my 1967 ecology field trips in central

Illinois with my University of Illinois Professor Dr. Charles Kendeigh -- author of the classic

“Animal Ecology” textbook. Each year he took his ecology class to study the succession of pond

life inhabiting coal strip-mining burrow pits of known age -- 20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 years of age.

Not unexpectedly, we found that the older the pond, the greater the diversity of plant and animal

life that had arrived by various means.

Back at the pond, with each step, water boatmen of two species suddenly burst from their hiding

places on the pond bottom or amid cattail stems, and I was able to scoop them up with the net.

Then a 13-mm predacious diving beetle appeared, swimming rapidly away, about 25 cm below

the surface. Again I was able to maneuver the net below it, and to lift it clear of the water. I

found a 30-mm Predacious Diving Beetle (Dytiscus) dead on the ice surface, and added it to my

collecting jar.

Carberry Sandhills Pond.

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By the end of the day, I had managed to collect nice series of about eight species of aquatic

beetles and bugs. I headed home, thankful for another beautiful day in the Sandhills. I concluded

that this was my favorite location in the province, even though I have had the opportunity to

study wildlife in over 100 locations from Manitoba’s barren-ground and coastal tundras to the

prairies and mixed forests of the south. The Sandhills must hold a special fascination for me,

since I have travelled there from one to six times a year for the last 42 years, investigating first

mammals (with research published in The Canadian Field-Naturalist and the Journal of

Mammalogy) and more recently, studying arthropods.

I spent Saturday doing yard work, wishing I was still out in the field, and that evening received a

call from my fossil-hunting colleague Andrew Fallak. He had been out scouring the gravel beds

along the Pembina River, finding elk, wolf and bison bones and teeth. He was struck by the huge

numbers of water boatmen literally covering the quieter eddies. Many flew up into his face and

into his hair as he strode along the shore. He also observed two green ground beetles at the base

of cut-banks, and concluded they were a fast-running species of Chlaenius. A small species of

orange and black butterfly was also present in good numbers.

The morning’s forecast for Sunday March 18 was cloudy, but with temperatures expected to hit

22˚C again, I thought it might be interesting to compare the Carberry prairie pond with a boreal

pond, so I drove out to the gravel pit at Julius Road (Agassiz Forest Reserve), east of Seddons

Corner. About 20 years ago, Dr. Ken Stewart had directed me here when I had asked him where

I could see Blue-spotted Salamanders. He said to visit the ponds in April, when there was still

some ice present, and to start looking at night when it was completely dark. So there I was in

April, by myself in the dark, in the middle of a gravel pit, standing knee-deep in frigid pond

water, bent over and peering with a headlamp into the depths for this elusive amphibian. The

only signs of life were large Dytiscus beetles, rowing around in search of something to devour. I

wondered how any salamander (especially its eggs and larvae) could co-inhabit the ponds with

these predators; likely the salamander’s defensive secretions are involved. Then around 1:00

AM, when I was tired and just about to give up (I had to get up for work in six hours!), I saw one

-- a slim, delicately built Blue-spotted Salamander, crawling slowly over the bottom. In the next

half hour, I discovered five more. After spending the winter hibernating in terrestrial burrows,

they were gathering here in this pond to mate and lay eggs, in spite of the water being 0˚C.

Amazing little creatures.

Back to the task at hand, I walked across some thick ice and stepped into open water. This pond

was different than the Carberry pond in that the bottom was covered in a 30-cm-thick layer of

dormant and decomposing aquatic vegetation. Only an occasional aquatic bug appeared in the

bright light, so I had to force my net into the thick mat to drive bugs and beetles into view. Swirls

of smelly black silt drifted up, but a number of insects were captured this way, including several

kinds of wriggling larvae (dragonflies, damselflies, and other insects).

Another younger pond nearby had a sandy bottom, and collecting was much easier. Several

species of predaceous diving beetles, water scavenger beetles, whirligig beetles, and water

striders were scooped up. Several species of spiders were captured while running on the water

surface, or scurrying over the moss-covered shore. On the way back to the car, I looked under a

number of rocks, boards, and a deer carcass, but no other insects were found. Still too early I

suspected. I walked back to the car, greeted by the sharp crack of a high-powered rifle, the

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annoying roar of several ATVs, and the drone of power saws -- all now too-common

disturbances in the boreal forest.

It was also shocking to see the changes in this area -- one of my favorite collecting sites for early

spring Cowpath Tiger Beetles, Cicindela purpurea (including black morphs). Heavy excavation

equipment and trucks had devastated the site, leaving vertical embankments 5-metres high.

Massive boulders were perched in or had tumbled out of the banks of fine sand, deposited by

Glacial Lake Agassiz. One could only imagine the powerful forces of glacial ice and flowing

water that had deposited this deep layer of till and beach sand over 12,000 years earlier. Added

to this, loggers had cut down much of the surrounding coniferous forest. Sadly, I hardly

recognized the place. I suspect this loss of special natural areas is a common experience for those

who love the outdoors. Driving home to

Winnipeg, I was quite satisfied with my

past-two days in the field, and with my

catch of about 150 specimens of two-

dozen species.

March 23 was cloudy with an

anticipated high of 20˚C, and presented

another opportunity to head into the

field. Andrew Fallak, my son Mark, and

I drove to the exposed gravel and mud

flats of the Pembina River, south of

Darlingford. Parking the van at the end

of a farm road, we had a grand view of

the Pembina Valley, clothed in Oak-

Ash Forest and cattle pastures, and with

occasional exposed steep cliffs of dark-

gray Odonah shale. Few Manitobans have any idea of the beauty of this valley, even without

leaves on the trees. The quiet river eddies and isolated ponds contained large numbers of water

boatmen, and two small species of ground beetles were picked up on drier sediments. Around

2:00 PM, still with cloud cover, I observed four Bronzed Tiger Beetles (Cicindela repanda) --

the earliest spring emergence I have ever found. No Chlaenius were seen, and only two

butterflies (the same fast flying orange and black species) were noted.

While few insects were active, spiders were seen in the hundreds -- a small black species running

rapidly over the rocks and cut-banks. Several were saved for later identification. Birds seen and

heard were Canada Geese, American Crow, and flocks of blackbirds. We counted four large

Leopard Frogs along the beach, and I reported these sightings to the Manitoba Herp Atlas, since

frogs are not usually out of hibernation this early.

We spent most of the time searching for and picking up bones, antlers, horn cores, and two-

dozen teeth of Bison, Elk and Moose, and beautiful, large unionid clam shells which often

littered the shoals of the river. The highlights of the trip were unearthing two relatively complete

Bison skulls (a male and female), with horn cores still attached. At one site on the beach, we

noted an Aboriginal person’s recent arrangement of Bison bones surrounded by a 1-metre-

diameter fence of little sticks, and wondered about the significance of the ceremony.

Pembina River in 2012

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These several hot days in mid-March were a real gift I will never forget, and they certainly had a

dramatic effect on emergence dates for hibernating insects, spiders and frogs. It will be

interesting to see if this becomes a more-frequent occurrence with climate change.

Foot Notes:

Dr. Richard Westwood responded to my enquiry about the possible identity of the butterflies

noted above, and his opinion was that: "... it was Polygonia satyrus which has been recorded in

Manitoba in mid-April, and March in eastern Canada, or Polygonia progne which has been

recorded in Manitoba in late April to early May, and is also on the wing in March in eastern

Canada."

Polygonia satyrus (Satyr Comma) hibernates over-winter as an adult and has been reported

active on warm winter days in more-temperate regions, such as Vancouver and Victoria (Guppy,

C.S. and J.H. Sheppard. 2001. Butterflies of British Columbia). This species also has the

reputation as being wary, with a swift and erratic flight, often found along the edge of water -- all

of which fit with my observations. This appears to be the earliest-recorded emergence of a

butterfly in Manitoba.

William Preston (1982. Amphibians and reptiles of Manitoba) stated that; “Leopard Frogs have

been observed out of hibernation in early April in some years.” It seems there are no records in

March for this frog. I checked with Doug Collicutt, who operates the Nature North website and

the Manitoba Herp Atlas, and he also observed Leopard frogs at Star Lake on March 23, 2012,

plus had other records on March 26 and 31. These appear to be the earliest sightings of the frogs

on land; Doug noted another sighting of this species under the ice.

The earliest I have observed tiger beetles in previous years was mid-April, and colleague Todd

Lawton mentioned his earliest records are early April, so the March 23 sighting of the Bronzed

Tiger Beetle is worthy of note. I also happened to mention these early dates to my friend Larry

de March, and he suggested I contact Deanna Dodgson, whom he knew had been photographing

insects during this warm spell. She kindly responded with the following observations:

March 17, Birds Hill Provincial Park -- nymph of the Coral-winged Grasshopper (Pardalophora

apiculata).

March 18, Mars Sand Hills -- Cowpath Tiger Beetle (Cicindela purpurea), Speckle-winged

Rangeland Grasshopper nymph (Arphia conspersa), Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa).

March 22, Sandilands Forest Reserve -- the geometrid Infant Moth (Archiearis infans), Awl-

shaped Pygmy Grasshopper adult (Tetrix subulata), the tachinid fly Gonia.

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MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS*

70th

Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Manitoba

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Winnipeg, Manitoba, 17-18 October or 24-25 October 2014 (to be decided)

ECE X (Tenth European Congress of Entomology)

York, UK, 3-8 August 2014

www.ece2014.com

Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Societies of Canada and Saskatchewan

Entomology in a Changing World

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 26 September – 1 October, 2014

Fourth International Entomophagous Insects Conference (IEIC4)

Fundamental and applied topics related to arthropod natural enemies

Torre del Mar, Spain, 4-9 October 2015

Webpage: http://www.ihsm.uma-csic.es/IEIC4/index.html

XXV International Congress of Entomology Entomology without Borders

Orlando, Florida, 25-30 September 2016

*If you have a meeting you would like listed in the next ESM Newsletter, contact Marj Smith

with the details by 30 September 2014

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POSITION PERSON EMAIL ADDRESS

President Robbin Lindsay Robbin.lindsay@phac-aspc.gc.ca

Past President Bob Lamb Lambmack@mts.net

President-Elect Richard Westwood r.westwood@uwinnipeg.ca

Representative to ESC Kateryn Rochon kateryn.rochon@umanitoba.ca

Member-at-Large Lara Toews LaraMichelleBates@hotmail.com

Secretary David Wade dwade@winnipeg.ca

Treasurer Ian Wise ian.wise@agr.gc.ca

Proceedings Editor Terry Galloway terry_galloway@umanitoba.ca

ESM COMMITTEE CHAIRS 2012

Endowment Fund Kathy Cano Kcano@pcocanada.com

Finance Kathy Cano Kcano@pcocanada.com

Scientific Program Paul Fields Paul.fields@agr.gc.ca

Newsletter Marjorie Smith

Jordan Bannerman

marj_smith@live.com

jordan.bannerman@umanitoba.ca

Youth Encouragement Matt Yunik matt.yunik@gmail.com

Archives

Common names

Barb Sharanowski

Barb Sharanowski

barb.sharanowski@gmail.com

barb.sharanowski@gmail.com

Scholarships &

Awards Richard Westwood r.westwood@uwinnipeg.ca

Fund-Raising Joel Gosselin jgosselin@viceroydistributors.ca

Nominating Lisa Capar Lisa_capar@yahoo.ca

Membership Desiree Vanderwel d.vanderwel@uwinnipeg.ca

Scrutineer Colin Demianyk colin.demianyk@agr.gc.ca

Web Page

Social

Rob Currie

Lisa Capar

Rob_Currie@umanitoba.ca

Lisa_capar@yahoo.ca

ESM EXECUTIVE 2012